and now we re seeing that. now, as we go into day 11 here on the ground in gaza, coming up on midnight, this will be day 11 of this operation, protective edge, and now we re seeing the ground assault. as far as the size of it, the amount of troops coming in right now, we don t have the number on that, but the israeli military says it has two main objectives. one, to take out the infrastructure, hamas infrastructure, to take out those tunnels, and two, to protect the safety of israeli citizens who have been under a constant barrage of rockets over the course of the last 11 days. more blasts. some of those rockets, as we know, i believe they re m-302s, have a range forgive me if i m getting the number wrong more explosions in the north have a range of up to 100 miles, shep. john, we have to take a
we ve sear 155-cannons. and the infantry to go along with it. the tunnel busters. massive bulldozers that can take a direct hit from a land mine, or roadside bomb. they go in, they dig out those tunnels. that is what the israeli military is going after from day one, shepard. that is what the target has been. the underground tunnel stretching from south to north, from east to west, that hamas, according to military officials, has used for the storage and transportation of its long-range, medium and short-range rockets. two rockets in particular of great concern, m-75s, m-302s. m-302s have a range of up to 200 miles. right now it s quiet. we see tracer fire in the distance, but we re expecting things to get heavy even more. john huddy in gaza city. john, thanks very much. let s go in john to david lee miller.
while also mobilizing forces for a possible ground operation. we go live to the israel/gaza border. tell us more. reporter: first of all, we ve seen probably numerous rockets being fired within the last 15, 20 minutes from gaza behind me there in the distance and by our account about six or seven of them were intercepted by israeli s iron dome rocket defense system. those missiles that get fired from the missile bunkers that we ve been showing you the past couple days. speaking of these rockets, there s video that was released today of palestinian militants loading rockets from underground bunkers and firing them. there are two types that have israeli officials concerned in particular. m-75s that have a range of 40 to 50 miles and then m-302s that have a range up to 100 miles.